Test 5 · Crocodiles and alligators

What would happen to a nest of crocodile eggs if the weather got much hotter?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: weather · What happens: happen, get

This is test 5 of lesson 29 «Crocodiles and alligators» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 nest	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 nest	det
6	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 eggs	case
8	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eggs	compound
9	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 nest	nmod
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 got	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 weather	det
12	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 got	nsubj
13	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
14	much	much	ADV	_	15 hotter	advmod
15	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 got	xcomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a nest of crocodile eggs	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get a condition, not said to happen	past	the weather					hot property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

All the eggs would hatch into lizards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 eggs	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 eggs	det
3	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hatch	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hatch	aux
5	hatch	hatch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	7 lizards	case
7	lizards	lizard	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hatch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hatch	would	all eggs			lizards			vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient into lizard=Product

Option 2

The eggs would all hatch a whole year early, in the middle of winter

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eggs	det
2	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hatch	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hatch	aux
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 hatch	advmod
5	hatch	hatch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 year	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 year	amod
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hatch	obl:unmarked
9	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 hatch	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 middle	punct
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 middle	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 middle	det
13	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hatch	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 winter	case
15	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 middle	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hatch	would	the eggs			the middle of winter	year	all, early property	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Nothing, temperature never matters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 matters	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 temperature	punct
3	temperature	temperature	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	conj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 matters	advmod
5	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not matter	present	Nothing						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

More of the babies would be one sex than the other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 sex	amod
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 babies	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 babies	det
4	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sex	obl
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 sex	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 sex	cop
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 sex	nummod
8	sex	sex	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	than	than	ADP	_	11 other	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 other	det
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sex	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would		More one sex				of the babies; than the other	tree rules

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